10-letter words containing c, r, i, m, s
- chromatism — chromatic aberration
- chronemics — The study of the communicative function of time.
- churnalism — a type of journalism that relies on reusing existing material such as press releases and wire service reports instead of original research, esp as a result of an increased demand for news content
- circumcise — If a boy or man is circumcised, the loose skin at the end of his penis is cut off.
- circumfuse — to pour or spread (a liquid, powder, etc) around
- circumpose — to position around, or within an encircled place
- come first — If you say that someone or something comes first for a particular person, you mean they treat or consider that person or thing as more important than anything else.
- comiserate — Obsolete spelling of commiserate.
- commissars — Plural form of commissar.
- commissary — A commissary is a shop that provides food and equipment in a place such as a military camp or a prison.
- commissure — a band of tissue linking two parts or organs, such as the nervous tissue connecting the right and left sides of the brain in vertebrates
- comparison — When you make a comparison, you consider two or more things and discover the differences between them.
- compersion — The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
- compositor — A compositor is a person who arranges the text and pictures of a book, magazine, or newspaper before it is printed.
- comprising — to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
- compromise — A compromise is a situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want, because of circumstances or because they are considering the wishes of other people.
- compursion — the act of contracting the mouth into a small rounded shape
- conacreism — the Irish system of letting farming land for a season or for eleven months
- concretism — the practice of representing abstract concepts in concrete terms
- conformism — the tendency to adopt the attitudes, behaviour, dress, etc, of the group to which one belongs
- conformist — Someone who is conformist behaves or thinks like everyone else rather than doing things that are original.
- consimilar — similar; alike
- consortism — symbiosis
- consortium — A consortium is a group of people or firms who have agreed to co-operate with each other.
- cornishman — a man who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cosmic ray — a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei.
- cosmoramic — of or relating to a cosmorama
- costumiers — Plural form of costumier.
- cottierism — (in Ireland) the system of cottier tenure
- creameries — Plural form of creamery.
- creaminess — containing cream.
- cremations — Plural form of cremation.
- crimsoning — Present participle of crimson.
- cristiform — crest-shaped
- criticisms — the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything.
- crocosmias — Plural form of crocosmia.
- crossclaim — a secondary claim brought by a defendant in a lawsuit on a co-defendant
- crumblings — any pieces of matter which have crumbled or fallen from a larger part
- crumminess — the state or quality of being crummy
- crumplings — crumpling or folding actions
- cuneiforms — Plural form of cuneiform.
- customizer — a person who customizes
- decembrist — a participant in the unsuccessful revolt against Tsar Nicolas I in Dec 1825
- decimeters — Plural form of decimeter.
- democritus — ?460–?370 bc, Greek philosopher who developed the atomist theory of matter of his teacher, Leucippus
- dichromasy — Alternative spelling of dichromacy.
- dichromism — the state of being dichromic
- direct sum — a composition of two disjoint sets, as vector spaces, such that every element in the composition can be written uniquely as the sum of two elements, one from each of the given sets.
- disclaimer — a statement, document, or assertion that disclaims responsibility, affiliation, etc.; disavowal; denial.
- discomfort — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.